Where Do People Discover Videos Online? Online Video Discovery Research
There are many ways in which people discover video online; videos embedded on blogs, video search engines, major search engines (i.e. Google, Yahoo, MSN), email, and social networking, to name a few. In February, our friends over at Tubemogul released some new research which helps to answer the question, "Where do people discover video online and which ...
The Death of User-Generated Online Video Content?
AccuStream iMedia Research believes that the end of the user-generated content era is close at hand as outlined in their recent report Pro Online Video Views 1998–2012. Last year, they say, there was a 25% increase in prodfessionally produced content on the web. This content generated 41.6 billion views. However if I remember correctly last ...
OpenTV Is Profitable
Without getting into majorly boring details and long lists of numbers, OpenTV has turned a profit in the year ended December 31, 2008. "2008 marked the first profitable year in OpenTV's history. We exceeded both our revenue and net income guidance for the year by improving our service delivery to customers and by building a ...
Help ReelSEO Create The First Internet Video Dictionary!
Today we kick off our ReelSEO glossary of new online video terms, or as I refer to it, our new "Vic-tionary." Our ReelSEO dictionary is a whopping one word, but its got to start somewhere. Today's term is "vididata" (noun) - a collection of information, a.k.a., "metadata," for video content.
VUDU Sells 1080p On Demand
Beating all comers VUDU has become the first company to sell full 1080p HD movies on demand via it's 1080p Internet Movie Player with content being available to VUDU owners today. Until now consumers have been restricted to renting HD movies from on- demand services, including VUDU's library of over 1,400 HD movies, the largest ...
YouTube Announces Collaborative Annotations
Last June YouTube launched Annotations, a feature that makes YouTube videos more interactive by enabling content creators to add speech bubbles,notes, and highlight boxes to their videos. People found several creative uses for Annotations, pushing the limits of information sharing, interactive games and storytelling. Last week they added to that with the ability to collaborate ...
The Nielsen Company Three Screen Report Shows Video Still On The Rise
The Three Screens report from The Nielsen Company has shown once again that video watching has increased on television, Internet and mobile devices. According to the report the average American is watching more than 151 hours of television shows per month. Those who seek their video entertainment online are watching more than three hours per ...
IAB Focuses In On Long-Form Web Video Ad Standards
Underscoring the urgent need for advertising standards in the online video business, the Interactive Advertising Bureau is launching its first effort this week to develop best practices for ads in TV shows on the Web. The IAB effort centers on “long-form” Web programs, including full episodes of TV shows that run online such as ABC’s ...
Instructional Videos and SEO Advantages – The Howcast Interview
In our continuing series on marketing with instructional videos and how-to video websites, ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Sanjay Raman, Co-Founder and Vice President of Product Development for Howcast. Sanjay talks with Grant about the special SEO benefit with instructional videos, and some special tips for how to present your “how to” video content.
Newspapers Need Video SEO, Says Scripps Newspapers Director
In our continuing series on newspapers and online video marketing, ReelSEO’s Grant Crowell interviews Jay Small, Executive Director, Content and Product Development for Scripps Interactive Newspapers Group. Jay talks about the business imperative for newspapers to be doing a better job promoting video and have it appear in search results and internal site search, and ...
Youtube Video Alerts – That and Nothing More From Video-Alerts.com
Normally when I'm sent to see a website I get there and I'm overwhelmed with options, profile fields, signup forms and a general plethora of things to inspect. Today, that is not the case. In fact, Video-Alerts.com might have the fewest fields I have seen on a web page since fields were first put on ...
AlwaysOn Selects Open Source Video Platform Solution From Kaltura
AlwaysOn, the participatory media network, has selected Kaltura to power video on their newly designed site. The site will be launching on March 1st – you can take a sneak peek and see the new AO TV powered by Kaltura here:
Huge Rise In Mobile TV and Mobile Video Usage Predicted By 2010
QuickPlay Media, the premier provider of mobile TV and video solutions, revealed the results of an independent Market Tools survey focused on mobile TV and video consumption in the UK. On a positive note the research revealed consumers are confident in the uptake of mobile TV and video, with 74 percent of respondents expecting an ...
Online Video Viewing In Germany - 77% of German Internet Users Watch Videos Online
The number of German internet users watching videos online has grown by 10 percent year-over-year to 28.5 million in December 2008, according to comScore.
Video SEO Quick Tips With Production and Marketing
ReelSEO's Grant Crowell does a multi-episode podcast on: 1) Video SEO Tip – How to "subvert" a social video campaign with a major brand to improve your own search listings, 2) Video production tip – How to prepare for being on camera WITHOUT a teleprompter and 3) Grant's Rant – Will all those backwards newspaper companies ...
